An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let’s explore the history of dinosaur science as seen through the history of dinosaur art.

Special thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their work in this video: Greg Paul: Doug Henderson: Gabriel Ugueto: Nobumichi Tamura: Emily Willoughby:

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Check out this amazing dino-art done by the swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. He worked with the scientists at the Swedish Museeum of Natural History to draw theese pictures for an exhibition about dinos at the museeum. http://www.simonstalenhag.se/paleo.html

pardon me but since the scientific term dinosaur first appeared in 1840, and the science of paleontology began to be formed in 1790' earlier attempts at figuring out fossils do not nessecarily count as studies of dinosaurs, since nobody knew what they were

Awesome video! But I feel Jurassic Park should be highlighted for its transformative power on the general public's perception of how dinosaurs looked and moved. Before 1993 I remember thinking t-rex walked upright. The more bird-like postures and movements in JP really made those dinos feel fresh and real to audiences.

Owen always is credited as commissioning the statues, but he was 2nd choice to Mantell, who declined the offer to advise the sculptures due to his poor health. Owen, although brilliant, was a con man and a ruthless ass.

C'mon PBS, the history of the history of something is called Historiography, don't tell me yr gonna tell me the history of the history of studying dinosaurs. That's the historiography of studying dinosaurs.

The last sentence in the video sums up what we all have in common, imagination.Imagination is why most of us are here, when i think about a dinosaur, i see feathers, leathery skin and scales, heck i even see dinosaurs with polka dots because a teacher once said "they could have polks dots." Dinosaurs are a part of our mythology that we can see, study and find in the dirt below us, the very dirt everything we know and love came from.

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